Spatiotemporal patterns of rain-on-snow and basal ice in high Arctic Svalbard: detection of a climate-cryosphere regime shift

• Published in: Environmental Research Letters
• Main Authors: Peeters, Bart, Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik, Loe, Leif Egil, Isaksen, Ketil, Veiberg, Vebjørn, Stien, Audun, Kohler, Jack, gallet, jean-charles, Aanes, Ronny, Hansen, Brage Bremset
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Nordenskiöld Land; Ny-Ålesund; Svalbard; Climate change; Ice; Ny Ålesund; permafrost; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2579318; https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaefb3

Arctic winters have become increasingly warmer and rainier. Where permafrost prevails, winter rain (or rain-on-snow; ROS) is known to occasionally cause extensive ice layers at the snow/ground interface, i.e. "basal ice" or "ground-ice", with potentially large ecological and soci...